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ALDEN
30 Shrewsbury Street
Holden, MA 01520-1843 USA

phone: +1 508-829-6000
fax: +1 508-829-5939
e-mail: info@aldenlab.com

 

  

FERC Licensing & NEPA Compliance

Pelton Round Butte
FERC licensing settlement
At the Pelton Round Butte Project in Oregon, our analysis contributed to the attainment of a landmark settlement designed to restore runs of anadromous salmon and steelhead to areas upstream of the project while maintaining the project's major role in meeting regional peaks in energy demands.




 

Klamath
Alden staff are currently engaged in addressing aquatic resource issues in major proceedings on the Snake River in Idaho and Oregon(Hells Canyon Project) and on the  Klamath River in Oregon and California (Klamath Project).




 

Hells Canyon
FERC licensing aquatic resource
 

Alden has unique experience in addressing key environmental issues that arise in the hydroelectric licensing process, including:

 

  • Instream flow
  • Water quality
  • Fish passage and protection
  • Anadromous fish restoration
  • ESA consultation
  • Special status waterways (Wild and Scenic Rivers and Essential Fish Habitat)

Alden's team has been successful in resolving contentious issues in numerous proceedings and has the technical and modeling expertise to provide in-depth technical analyses relating to:

 

  • Dissolved oxygen
  • Water temperature
  • Reservoir and river hydraulics
  • Sediment transport
  • Fish entrainment
  • Design and siting of fish passage facilities
     

Working with the Louis Berger Group under contract to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Alden’s environmental professionals have addressed aquatic resource and water quality issues in NEPA documents on relicensing actions at 45 hydro facilities in California, Connecticut, Idaho, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, and Vermont representing more than 2,600 MW of installed capacity.